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Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2003)

What a thoroughly disappointing movie.
What a total let down, especially when I was so psyched to see this movie: Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting, doing a flick about rage crazy zombies and I'm thinking this movie is just going to rock.
This was supposed to be a horror movie, right? Well where the heck was the heart-pounding suspense? Where were the thrills and chills? Where were the goosebumps and where was that rollercoaster ride of terror? This movie had none of that, just a few scenes with these zombies on speed coming after the survivors, but even those scenes fell totally flat because there was absolutely no build up to any of it.
The scenes of London completely empty were pretty cool, but by the end of the movie, it just reminded me of those scenes in Vanilla Sky and it made me think of how much more I enjoyed that movie. About the only other positive thing I can say about this movie was that the music was pretty good, but as for the rest of the movie, I guess somehow the commercials had me convinced that this movie was going to scare the heck out of me and it didn't even come close.
And then there were those over-hyped alternate endings. All three of the endings were weak, and for anyone who actually got lured in to watch the theatrical alternate ending, I feel your anger and disappointment and I didn't even buy a ticket. The difference between the original theatrical ending and the alternate theatrical ending was so minuscule it was ridiculous.
To sum up this review, I'd say this movie sucked, but it didn't even inspire that much emotion, it was really just . . . blah.